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Example sentences for "bowman"

Lexicographically close words:
bowlful; bowline; bowlines; bowling; bowls; bowmen; bown; bownd; bownde; bowre
  1. Gregory and Bowman to look for the missing animals.

  2. Gregory and Bowman were employed nearly the whole day in tracking them, and succeeded in bringing them in at night.

  3. Elsey and Bowman took them down to the marked tree and buried them.

  4. Gregory and Bowman started to look for the horse.

  5. Gregory and Bowman rode out to round in the horses.

  6. Bowman rode down a young emu, which supplied us with a meal of fresh meat.

  7. As Bowman had fallen some distance in the rear, I selected the first suitable spot, and at 11.

  8. Bowman complains of an attack of scurvy, which causes pains in his legs and swelling of the gums.

  9. Baines and Bowman returned with the stray horses, having found them on the bank of a small river fifteen miles to the west of the camp.

  10. Gregory and Bowman had arrived with the two stray horses, having found them about ten miles to the north-west of the camp, at the reedy swamp from which they strayed.

  11. Bowman had also replaced the shoes on all the horses.

  12. Gregory and Bowman shoeing five horses each day, although some of them are very restive.

  13. Richards is in charge of the sheep; Macdonald cook during the week; Bowman and Melville in charge of horses; Dean preparing saddle-bags and harness; Fahey and Selby burning charcoal and general camp duties.

  14. Those in the stands saw the famed bowman straighten as though jerked upright by an invisible hand.

  15. The veteran bowman gasped incredulously as the stone-shod missile whined past.

  16. Although he continued on toward the west, his progress was slow and uncertain; for the cave-man was determined to become an expert bowman without delay.

  17. I steered cautiously for the cove, fearfully though the swell bore in, breaking over the rocks outside of it; and the reefer and I had to spring one after the other for our lives, just as the bowman prized her off into the back-wash.

  18. As Myles and the old bowman galloped by, with the answering echo of their horses' hoof-beats rattling back from the smooth stone face of the walls, the lad looked up, wondering at the height and strength of the great ancient fortress.

  19. The next morning Myles and the old bowman rode away, and no doubt to the boy himself the dark shadows of leave-taking were lost in the golden light of hope as he rode out into the great world to seek his fortune.

  20. Suddenly, as though stirred by an impulse, the same lad who had just created the laugh arose from the bench, and came directly across the room to where Myles and the bowman sat.

  21. Then Diccon Bowman carried him out into the strangeness of the winter midnight.

  22. But Diccon Bowman here hath taught me use of arms.

  23. Then it was that old Diccon Bowman took him in hand, than whom none could be better fitted to shape his young body to strength and his hands to skill in arms.

  24. The old bowman had served with Lord Falworth's father under the Black Prince both in France and Spain, and in long years of war had gained a practical knowledge of arms that few could surpass.

  25. The old bowman led by the bridle-rein the horse upon which Myles had ridden that morning.

  26. A fair was held twice in a twelvemonth at the market-town of Wisebey, and three times in the seven years old Diccon Bowman took the lad to see the sights at that place.

  27. Bishop Bowman adds: "On the God who has so often answered my prayers, I will still rely, scientific men and philosophers to the contrary notwithstanding.

  28. The bowman and the steersman carry their canoe, a duty from which the middle men are exempt.

  29. When arrived at a portage, the bowman instantly jumps in the water to prevent the canoe from touching the bottom, while the others tie their slings to the packages in the canoe and swing them on their backs to carry over the portage.

  30. The bowman boated his oar and leant over the bows.

  31. The bowman of each boat promptly cut the painter.

  32. So the Prince of Helium told the bowman of Lothar who he was and what adventure had brought him to this far country.

  33. The bowman could not travel at the pace set by Carthoris, whose muscles carried him with great rapidity over the face of the small planet, the force of gravity of which exerts so much less retarding power than that of the Earth.

  34. Then he grasped the control lever, and as the cage shot downward at sickening speed, the bowman grappled with the slave.

  35. On this morning Colonel Clark did not sit alone, but was surrounded by men of weight,--by Monsieur Gratiot and other citizens, Captain Bowman and the Spanish officers.

  36. Fetch this letter to Captain Bowman at the garrison up the street.

  37. We came to the fires, and Captain Bowman hurried up to meet him.

  38. Often Captain Harrod or Bowman or some of the others would pause in their arguments and say gravely, "What does Davy think of it?

  39. The faithful Bowman and his men arrived instead, with the news that there had been only a roving party of forty, and these were now in full retreat.

  40. Me he sent speeding through the village to tell Captain Bowman to patrol the outskirts of the town, that no runner might get through to warn Fort Chartres and Cohos, as some called Cahokia.

  41. The odd thing was that he should have bowed to Clark, who was dressed no differently from Bowman and Harrod and Duff; and the man's voice trembled piteously as he spoke.

  42. But the fort is provisioned for a month," Bowman expostulated; "and they must find out to-morrow how weak we are.

  43. My letter had been about Tom, and how he had become a sergeant, and what a favorite he was with Bowman and the Colonel.

  44. They too stared, with different exclamations on their lips,--Cowan and Bowman and Tom McChesney and Terence McCann in front.

  45. At length there came a popping right and left, and we knew that Bowman and McCarty's men had swung into position there.

  46. I am sending him with Captain Bowman to take Cahokia.

  47. In vain had the faithful Bowman put them off.

  48. Ay," responded Blunt, who was bowman of the boat; "there it goes again.

  49. The bowman and young Guy leaned over the side, and at the risk of their lives grasped at a drowning man.

  50. But if beside them too war and toil arise, yet at least let the strong Telamonian Aias come alone and let Teukros the skilled bowman follow with him.

  51. But if beside you too war and toil arise, yet at least let the strong Telamonian Aias come alone, and let Teukros the skilled bowman follow with him.

  52. And whether they thought that "Christ" was the beads and the bell, or whether the bowman in him did send over good will and make it to enter their hearts, or whether it was somewhat of both, they did suddenly grow friendly.

  53. Among us we had one Diego Minas, a huge man and as mighty a bowman as any in Flanders or England.

  54. So he succeeded in putting into his canvas the strength that each bowman put into his bow.

  55. And up there, at the top of the Column of Progress, we saw the Adventurous Bowman and his companions in two groups, one reflected on the illuminated fog.

  56. The weather was cold and raw throughout the day; the temperature from 34 degrees to 45 degrees; but the party were kept in constant exercise, either in tracking or walking; the steersman and bowman only being required in the boat.

  57. Tonight you have been the greatest bowman in all the world.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bowman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.